The American faculty
Subtitle: the restructuring of academic work and careers
By: Jack H. Schuster, Martin J. Finkelstein.
Contributors: Finkelstein, Martin J., 1949-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 572
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty.; College teachers -- Professional relationships -- United States.; College teachers -- Workload -- United States.
Description: "Higher education is becoming destabilized in the face of extraordinarily rapid change. The composition of the academy's most valuable asset - the faculty - and the essential nature of faculty work are being transformed."

"At the heart of that transformation, but largely invisible, has been a restructuring of academic appointments, academic work, and academic careers - a reconfiguring widely decried but heretofore inadequately described. This volume depicts the scope and depth of the transformation, combing empirical data drawn from three decades of national higher education surveys. The authors' portrait, at once startling and disturbing, provides the context for interpreting these developments as part of a larger structural evolution of the national higher education system. Schuster and Finkelstein outline the stakes for the nation and the challenging work to be done."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Establishing the framework; title: The American faculty in perspective; title: The professoriate in profile; title: The changing complexion of faculty work; title: Academic culture and values and the quality of worklife; title: The changing academic career; title: The revolution in academic appointments: a closer look; title: Compensation and academic careers: trends and issues; title: Pathways to the professoriate; title: American academic life restructured; title: What's ahead? agendas for policy analysis, research, and action on academic staffing.